PyCon 2013 was my favorite conference I've ever attended. This incident has been overreacted to by everyone from Richards on down to the hordes of trolls getting on her case. There's some food for thought here but jesus christ people, calm down and use your brains a bit.

Clarification: Cinnamon isn't "the fallback mode," by which I think you mean the thing variously referred to as "GNOME Fallback" or "Gnome Classic"(I can't keep the terminology straight either, maybe this will help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/83351/which-is-correct-gnome-classic-or-gnome-fallback ).

Cinnamon is like the fallback mode in that it builds on Gnome 3 while attempting to feel familiar to Gnome 2 users. But it's a different codebase worked on by different people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_%28user_interface%29)

You are correct that both Cinnamon and "fallback" still lack quite a bit of Gnome 2's functionality. I'm keeping a hopeful eye on Cinnamon, but still running Gnome 2 indefinitely.

New York's 2nd Avenue subway started construction 40 years ago, after first being planned 83 years ago.And yes, the project is currently under construction (again).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway#Background

If you read Knuth's Selected Papers on Computer Science, you'll see he argues that algorithmic thinking is fundamentally a non-mathematician way of viewing problems.
And besides, as other people have stated, Software Engineering is just a subset of Computer Science.

taybin writes: "The lead developer for Ardour has been notified that at the end of January, Solid State Logic will no longer pay for him to developer Ardour full time. Their sponsorship only lasted 10 months. They had reaffirmed their commitment to the Ardour platform as recently as November in a press release at the AES audio conference.
The offical statement from Ardour is here."

thorwil writes: "After only about a year of employing Paul Davis (former 2nd employee at amazon.com), SSL cancels the sponsoring of Ardour (the only serious digital audio workstation on Linux), stating a "conflict of interest". The project is now looking for new sponsorship to keep development going at a good pace. See Ardour Seeks New Sponsorship."

Blago writes: "Google has made available the first public release of MacFUSE. For the lazy folks, there is also a precompiled binary version that ships with sshfs, ntfs-3g (r/w), ftpfs (r/w FTP), wdfs, cryptofs, encfs, bindfs, unionfs , and beaglefs. Just download, uncompress and rsync."

Posted
by
timothy
on Monday July 31, 2006 @03:23PM
from the dat's-what-u-think-lol dept.

fooby12 writes "According to the Univeristy of Toronto instant messaging does not hurt the grammar of the people who use it. From the article: "With 80% of Canadian teenagers using instant messaging and adopting its unique linguistic shorthand, many teachers and parents are concerned about the medium's potential to corrupt kids' grammar. But instant messaging doesn't deserve its bad reputation as a spoiler of syntax, suggests a new study from the University of Toronto.""

Posted
by
Zonk
on Monday July 31, 2006 @01:45PM
from the smaller-is-better dept.

simoniker writes "Following some rampant media speculation over the weekend, the ESA trade organization has released an official statement on the future of the E3 game trade show, revealing that it is not cancelled outright, but is rather 'evolving into a more intimate event focused on targeted, personalized meetings and activities.' E3 2007 will still take place in Los Angeles next year, according to the ESA's Doug Lowenstein, but 'will not feature the large trade show environment of previous years.'" Which is to say, it's not really E3 anymore.